I sympathize with your situation, but how many more threads on this do you need? It's actually harder to help you if the answers to your questions are so spread out; people are going to forget what has been proposed and tried already.
I still think the most likely solution is for you to have a filtering proxy server in front of GAE that has a fixed cost, so that GAE doesn't bill you for the DDOS requests. If CloudFlare doesn't work then I think a simple node.js proxy would do the trick, and you could probably host it on a VM somewhere for around $10-15 a month. If you're not prepared to write that proxy yourself, you could probably hire someone to do it; the hourly rate might be high, but I doubt it would take an experienced developer very long at all to do. I'm tempted to do it myself but I have other obligations that would get in the way. - Kris On Friday, August 10, 2012 1:01:33 PM UTC-7, Kate wrote: > > I have posted about my site being bombarded by curl requests from hundreds > of ip addresses in some other threads here and received a lot of help. > > It seems that most of the offenders are affiliated with planet-lab and > possibly the attacks are mistakes. However as a result my site is being > brought down for several hourse per day. I have contacted planet-lab by > email with no luck, > > I cannot have more that100 subnet entries in my block file on gae, and > short of paying more $$$ to google to support these unwanted curl requests > I. Can think of nothing else to do. > > Can anyone think of how I can get planet-lab to stop? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/KJ3Fmsjp6kQJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
